Creative Music Making Activities for Kids
Engage children in fun and educational music-making exercises like creating their own songs, exploring sound effects, and rhythms inspired by dinosaurs and sweet treats. Encourage creativity through actions and group collaboration.
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Keep Calm and Make Music A Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut duration & texture Sing the song together until you are confident with how it goes Add some actions for each of the lines A Pizza Hut (draw a house in the air) Kentucky Fried Chicken (flap arms like chicken wings) McDonalds (draw the golden arches in the air) Clap, say and count the syllables for each place A Pi-zza hut Ken-tu-cky fried chic-ken Mc-Don-alds When you feel very confident (and if there are enough of you) try singing it as a round
Make it your own Think of a new topic e.g. Dinosaurs or Sweeties Make up a new set of words for each line Tri-cer-a-tops Big, long dip-lo-do-cus A T-Rex A strawberry lace fizzy cola bottle marsh mallow Sing your new version and add actions Try working in groups to come up with different songs that you can share with each other Remember to clap the syllables to make sure they fit Add your own actions
Take it a little furtherwith sounds Explore some sound effects for each of 3 different ideas using body / voice / instrumental sounds e.g. Triceratops: make a vocal horn sound Diplodocus: make a long, slow sound T-Rex: make a scary / loud sound Try making a hand action that shows the sound Try drawing a symbol that represents each sound, e.g. triceratops diplodocus T-Rex Explore different arrangements / sequences of these symbols to create some dinosaur music
Dinosaur music Try playing this sequence: And try playing this one Now make up your own
Dinosaur Music Try playing this pattern: And try playing this one: Now make up your own
Take it a little furtherwith rhythms Use the rhythm patterns of each word straw straw- -berry lace berry lace fi-zzy co-la bot-tle marsh ma-llow See if you can notate the patterns using a grid straw berry lace X XX X Fiz-zy Co-la Bot- tle XX XX X X M a r s h Mal- low X X Explore different sequences and patterns by using the word rhythms in different orders or repeating the rhythms
Take it a little furtherwith layers Create your own Pizza music by layering up your sounds or rhythms Choose a sound to be your dough this should be a steady beat played by one group e.g. swee-ties swee-ties Choose one of your rhythms / sounds to become the first topping (layer) and play it on the top of your dough e.g. marsh mal-low Next layer on another rhythm / sound to create a third topping e.g. mi-ni choc-late eggs As a group decide how many toppings (layers) you want on your pizza music Rehearse and perform it together If you can, record it on an iPad and watch it back
You could notate it like this 1 2 3 4 Swee- ties swee- ties Marsh Mal-low Marsh Mal-low Mi-ni Choc-late eggs 1 2 3 4 x x x x x xx x xx xx xx x